Visitors to see Hope the whale at the National History Museum will have noticed its grand new home is called the Hintze hall. Michael Hintze’s surname will be familiar to London culture vultures, as the hedge funder and philanthropist’s bequests are as numerous as they are generous. The Clapham resident’s hedge fund CQS is one of the world’s best known, investing a cool $12.7 billion of your and my pensions and other savings.